Kaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Borrowed from Egyptian kꜣ.

名詞

ka (複数形 kas)

1. A spiritual part of the soul in Egyptian mythology, which survived after death.
   • 1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings:

     Then, I wondered how long I must wait before seeing my Double, but if I recalled, the Ka was not supposed to appear before the seventy days of embalming were done.

   • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

     Hence Dorian's portrait is like the ka or double of the deceased in Egyptian tombs, heaped with toys and furniture.

   • 2011, Neil Gaiman, American Gods (Tenth Anniversary Edition), William Morrow 2013, p. 179:

     ‘You could bind the ka of a man to his body for five thousand years,’ said Jaquel.

語源 2

Origin uncertain.

動詞

ka

1. (transitive, obsolete) To serve or help; used only in the phrase "Ka me, ka thee" or variants thereof.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.5:

     Now nature stood ever on this point, Kæ mee Ile kæ thee, and ever ready to bee even alwaies on recompences and vicissitude of things, and to give as good as one brings.

   • 1821, Walter Scott, Kenilworth:

     Ka me, ka thee, is a proverb all over the world.

参照

• Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

名詞

ka (複数形 kas)

1. The name of the Cyrillic script letter К / к.

アナグラム

• AK, Ak

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kaː/, [käː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka/, [käː]

名詞

kā f (indeclinable)

1. The name of the letter K.

等位語

• (Latin-script letter names) littera; ā, bē, cē, dē, ē, ef, gē, hā / *acca, ī, kā, el, em, en, ō, pē, kū, er, es, tē, ū, ix / īx / ex, ȳ / ī graeca / ȳpsīlon, zēta

参照

• Arthur E. Gordon, The Letter Names of the Latin Alphabet (University of California Press, 1973; volume 9 of University of California Publications: Classical Studies), part III: “Summary of the Ancient Evidence”, page 32
  Clearly there is no question or doubt about the names of the vowels A, E, I, O, U. They are simply long A, long E, etc. (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū). Nor is there any uncertainty with respect to the six mutes B, C, D, G, P, T. Their names are bē, cē, dē, gē, pē, tē (each with a long E). Or about H, K, and Q: they are hā, kā, kū — each, again, with a long vowel sound.

接頭辞

ka-

1. Alternative form of ker- added to expressive words to form adverbs and interjections. See ker-.

派生語

• kaboom
• kazoom

アナグラム

• AK, Ak